Total expenditures for research and development activities (R&D) in 2021 amounted to over RSD 62 billion RSD (62,330,472 in thousands), and their participation in GDP amounts to almost 1% (0.99%), which represents an increase of 8 percentage points compared to the previous year.

In total expenditures for R&D, the share of gross investments is 7%, which represents an increase of 2% compared to the previous year, while the share of current expenditures is 93%.